The idea of creating such an album dedicated to the battleships of
World War Two had been born in the last dozen or so years. During
this period, various concepts appeared in print, which were meant
to present those beautiful ships in the form of a "condensed pill."
Most of the contributions have been made by foreign authors who had
had greater access to photographic references. It was not easy,
because it was difficult to choose several photos illustrating the
entire history of the battleship, starting from the moment of the
keel laying and ending with its sinking. Then, in some cases it has
a further history as a wreck resting on the seabed until today.
Initially, we selected over 1,000 photos, which we had to give up
because of the size of such an album. In the end, it was divided
into two volumes, thanks to which the number of photos remained
only slightly reduced. In the case of vessels with a large or
interesting combat history, we tried to put more photos
illustrating their operational activities. Some ships have a very
limited number of photos included. The best example of this is the
Japanese battleship "Musashi", of which only few photographs exist.
Most of them come from private collections and it was very
difficult to get permission to publish them. Despite these
difficulties, it was possible to gather unique photographic
material enriched with the brief combat records of individual
battleships, which will hopefully allow the reader to trace their
story. In the first volume, the author describes all the most
important battleships from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Greece, Spain,
Japan, France, and Germany.
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